The Golden Age of Apps

Wowwy zowwy, Mobile Games were way better when you had 0 ads and 0 micro transactions, just the game.

NYAN CAT LOST IN SPACE MY BELOVED!!!!! I had a major nyan cat hyperfixation as a kid LMAO

pocket god unlocked a DEEP forgotten memory thank you for that

i miss back when games didnt have ads every 10 seconds or a paid subscription for the game/app.

My little sister bought 400 dollars worth of “Smurf berries” and that’s when my mom realized for the first time ever that these mobile games dont need your credit card pin. I remember her calling the bank that day so stressed.

Lest we forget the phenomenon that was Flappy Bird and how the developer felt bad for making so much money that he removed it from the App Store, and then people would sell their iPhones that still had it downloaded for like thousands of dollars lol edit: I learned the wrong version of this story & may have mixed it up with a different one, my bad, go look up Dong Nguyen. Apparently he had felt extreme guilt about how the game had gone from something casual to very addictive and that was a heavy weight on his conscience. As a child at the time I had no idea about the full story! Poor guy, I hope he’s doing alright.

How did you not cover talking Tom, that one shaped me in many ways

Y’all remember when Logo Quizzes were everywhere? Omg I was so good at those

Having physics in your phone was mind blowing at the time, that's why the lighter and beer glass were such a novelty lol Also the juicy fruit app having "tom felton still talking about harry potter" is so ahead of it's time.

the clips of the cupcake decorator game where you'd swipe all over to "reveal" the icing made me do an irl ratatouille flashback moment oml

I loved Pocket God as a kid. I remember feeling so awful from just watching the pygmies drown.

That 2008 to 2013 period was a great time looking back smartphones were starting to get popular but you had blackberries flip phones and other keyboard phones in society and the games like subway surfers and temple run was so fun

omg seeing some of those apps in the thumbnail, I realized I completely forgot about them

You sharing your Hollister story compelled me to share mine. I went with my brother to pick up dinner for my family at Popeyes. They were busy so they had us wait in the parking lot. I had my phone audio hooked up to the radio and was showing my brother an assortment of YuGiOh memes. And I was trying to get this Duke Devlin meme to load but it wouldn't. So I was just staring at my phone when the Popeyes worker came over with the food. My brother rolled down the window to take it just as the meme loaded and the speakers blasted "I'M BRINGING SEXY BACK!" as soon as the window came down. There was a lot of staring and laughing.

Omg I totally forgot about virtual families. That game was stressful af because food was a resource you had to manage, and being low on food or god forbid your RUN OUT of food with a whole virtual family made me feel so bad

Early app games were such a fun time/era. This video reminded me of the original version of the Tiny Tower app/game. It had such a darling pixely art style and I loved growing my tower, the little side quests, putting my tower occupants in silly outfits, etc.! Eventually they updated/overhauled the game to where it was no longer recognizable. RIP 😔

My favorite mobile apps/games were the "totally legit not at all fake" paranormal ghost radios and radars, I'd spend hours at my friends house hunting ghosts with them in their basement until one of us eventually got too scared and chickened out only to start right back up a few hours later.

I remember when my friend taught me that you could change the device time to speed up things in the Smurfs game. Eventually they added a message where Papa Smurf said "if I catch you changing the clocks again, Smurfs will leave the village." This wasn't even true but I can imagine it scaring a lot of kids.

i had a phase where i'd download a bunch of apps that in retrospect were clearly amateur programmers' pet projects made out of free/cheap files from unity asset store, but even so the minimalist vibes with blank white textures and dim morning lighting are super nostalgic to me now

Dose anyone remember the classic toca boca games? Ya know before the new toca life games (well there was toca town but the other games). Example Toca Kichen, Toca Blocks, Toca Hair Salon and Toca Natrue